A Text-Book of the History of Painting - John Charles Van Dyke

A Text-Book of the History of Painting

By John Charles Van Dyke

  • Release Date: 1932-01-01
  • Genre: Art & Architecture

Description

The first important records of this art are met with in Egypt; but before the Egyptian civilization the men of the early ages probably used color in ornamentation and decoration, and they certainly scratched the outlines of men and animals upon bone and slate. Traces of this rude primitive work still remain to us on the pottery, weapons, and stone implements of the cave-dwellers.